Cooper, the show's host, could barely contain his surprise at the thought of young girls living away from their families in big cities at such a young age.

"I don't think any young girl should be put in that situation, period," added Otis, who moved to Europe to further her career at a young age.

Discussing the body battles faced by teenage models, Rocha offered: "You're taking them [girls] out of high school, out of their parents, and putting them in an industry that treats them as adults, and they're not ready for that."

Whether Rocha's outspokenness was meant as a message directed at her parents is not known. She now lives with her husband, British interior designer James Cameron, in Manhattan's wealthy Upper East Side district.

But even being wealthy, successful and out of her teens doesn't make Rocha immune from criticism. A year ago she was deemed by some designers 'too fat' to be a model. "Now I'm too thin," she revealed. "It goes back and forth, you never can please everyone. You're too big for one person; you're too small, your cheekbones are too defined. We have to come into this industry so young, and take it as it is."